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  • Midhurst WW2 Memoirs:

    The Evacuee Story

    by Peter H Sydenham ...
    Series series Midhurst WW2 Memoirs: An Evacuee's Story
    The memoirs series of books, spanning from up to, and including WW2, cover the history of the Midhurst Rural District MRD, a beautiful part of West Sussex in England. They are intended to be a living research resource for others to pick up from if they seek to delve deeper, or to learn of their heritage.They began with my children, and then their children, asking me to help them with their school ... Read more

    $1.80 CAD

  • Midhurst WW2 Memoirs

    1. A Place Dear to My Heart

    by Peter H Sydenham ...
    Series Book 1 - Midhurst WW2 Memoirs
    A region of picturesque and sylvan beauty that I have never seen equalled.’ - Benjamin Disraeli. 1870.By British standards, Midhurst in West Sussex, was always a sleepy town, becoming that way due to its enviable geographical position in the midst of the award winning rural countryside of the South Downs National Park.WW2 activity filled it to capacity with troops from Canada, USA and those ... Read more

    $6.79 CAD

  • Midhurst WW2 Memoirs

    3. Lowest Times (1940-1943)

    by Peter H Sydenham ...
    Series Book 3 - Midhurst WW2 Memoirs
    Midhurst, West Sussex, is an acclaimed rural area having the Head Office of the South Downs National Park Authority in its town centre. In this Book 3, of Peter Sydenham's Midhurst WW2 Memoirs series, he concentrates on his first half of the war period 1940-1943..Hitler was building his Third Reich. Inhumanity and antisemitism became the Nazi norm. Britains realised he could soon invade their ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Midhurst WW2 Memoirs 2: 2. . 'Evil' Rising

    'Good' Awakening

    by Peter H Sydenham ...
    Series Book 2 - Midhurst WW2 Memoirs
    Understanding the Midhurst District in WW2 needs appreciation of how WW2 formed over the 1930s. Hitler's rise to absolute power by 1933 started his insane plan to build a 1000yr Third German Reich by heinous means, including educating German boys to become dispensable soldiers, and the nation's girls to be mothers of his master race.Book 2 explores how Hitler brought about WW2 through dishonest ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Midhurst WW2 Memoirs: 4. Hard Ending (1944-1950): 4. Hard Ending (1944-1950): 4. Hard Ending (1944-1950)

    4. Hard Ending (1944-1950)

    by Peter Henry Sydenham ...
    This book, Midhurst WW2 Memoirs: 4. Hard Ending (1944-1950) is the final work of a tetralogy written over a decade. Its aim is to leave an account of the life and times of a small town experiencing the development of WW2. It uses the back story of the author's time there as a story-line, adding extensive back-story accounts that few would have known of at that time. Experiences of people connected ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • No 1 Balloon Centre. Kidbrooke

    1938-1945

    by Peter Henry Sydenham ...
    In 1938, land between the current Thomas Tallis school and Kidbrooke railway station was the location of the RAF No. 1 Balloon Centre. During WW2 it flew barrage balloons to defend targets from German bombing.RAF Balloon Command had twenty Centres that flew thousands of balloons in the British Isles and abroad. No1 Centre was the first to come into operation, with its Squadrons 901, 902 and 903. ... Read more

    $5.39 CAD

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  • Women in the Second World War

    by Collette Drifte ...
    Women in the Second World War explores the experiences of women who served in the armed forces, or complimentary services. Using interviews, anecdotes, memoirs and/or accounts from the women (or, where appropriate, their children), the book tells the women's personal accounts of what their lives were like and what particular experiences they had while serving. They were all ordinary British women, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blitz Diary

    Life Under Fire in the Second World War

    by Mike Brown, Carol Harris ...
    During the 1930s, war with Germany became increasingly likely. The British Government believed that it would start with massed ranks of enemy planes, dropping bombs and poison gas on civilians in major towns and cities, terrifying them into surrendering. When war broke out, preparations to protect the population were piecemeal and inadequate. As anticipated, people were shocked by the first raids ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Station 12

    SOE's Secret Weapons Centre

    by Des Turner ...
    The full story of Aston House in the Second World War has never been told before.Its activities were top secret and as important to the Allied war effort as those of Bletchley Park, but in a different way. Situated near Stevenage, Aston House was one of many British country houses requisitioned during the Second World War by the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Born out of Bletchley Park, where ... Read more

    $10.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • One Woman's War

    by Candy Jar ...
    The Second World War is dominated by heroic tales of men defending their country against a formidable enemy but what about the women who also played their part in fighting for freedom? Eileen Younghusband (90) was just 18 when she joined the Womens Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF). She quickly demonstrated her keen intellect and mathematical skills, playing a crucial role in Fighter Command's ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unknown Warriors

    by Nicholas Pringle ...
    They served across the globe; from the North African desert to the jungles of Burma, from the skies of occupied Europe to the icy Arctic Ocean. 'The Unknown Warriors', as Winston Churchill named them, were the men and women who fought for the country during the Second World War.When an appeal for memories of wartime and what they thought of their country in the 21st century appeared in the local ... Read more

    $4.57 CAD

  • Cheer Up, Mate!

    Second World War Humour

    by Alan Weeks ...
    Cheer Up, Mate! is a compilation of comical tales and anecdotes from World War Two. Between 1939 and 1945 the world witnessed what is generally agreed to be the most horrific war in history. Millions died and millions more were physically or psychologically wounded by the conflict. Yet amidst the pain and devastation, people were not only able to survive, they also managed to maintain a sense of ... Read more

    $9.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus